We would like to thank all the members of our network and attendees who made our Final Christmas Conference successful. In these four years we have managed to exceed our targets and create a community of practitioners who enthusiastically engaged with Foundation Industries, and provided expertise to develop solutions for common challenges. We particularly welcomed […]
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Published: November 12th, 2024
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As part of our ‘Blue Skies, Greener Future’ seminar series, Dr. Tom Flint from University of Manchester spoke about mathematical frameworks that describe materials in solid, fluid, and plasma states and their numerical implementation for deployment in high-performance computing. He presented on some of the applications, such as 3D printing of components used in the […]
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Published: July 18th, 2024
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Future-Proofing Your Workforce (FPYW) was a 6-month project delivered under the umbrella of Transforming Founding Industries Network + in June-December 2023. FPYW was delivered by a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in the arts and humanities, design and creative practice: Prof. Rachel Van Duyvenbode (University of Sheffield) and colleagues from London College […]
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Published: April 25th, 2024
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The second edition of the TFIN+ brochure contains summaries of all the completed projects from Calls 1-5. The brochure also includes a list of recent publications authored by small project funding recipients and the TFIN+ Management Committee. The brochure is available for download from here
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Published: April 25th, 2024
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The event was an opportunity for the TFIN+ team to discuss some of the major issues facing the Foundation Industries, and to contribute ideas for new themes and collaboration opportunities that could be considered in the medium to longer term. The event included participation from Glass Futures, Materials Processing Institute, CPI, Lucideon, Henry Royce Institute, Innovate UK and FIVe – Foundation Industries Ventures Slides are available […]
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Published: March 27th, 2024
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As a part of Blue Skies Greener Future series our second speaker is Zhongyun Fan. He is a professor of metallurgy, the founder and Director of BCAST – Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology at Brunel University London. He is the principal investigator/director of the EPSRC funded LiME Research Hub, a national centre of excellence in liquid […]
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Published: March 18th, 2024
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You can now access the slide packs from last week’s amazing ECR Net Zero Conference on the conference website. https://lnkd.in/emzMuyt5 A marvellous collaboration between C-DICE, CO₂RE – The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub, EDI+, Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC), ERA, HI-ACT, UK-HyRES: Hub for Research Challenges in Hydrogen and Alternative Liquid Fuels, Industrial Decarbonisation Research and […]
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Published: March 11th, 2024
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As part of our ‘Blue Skies, Greener Future’ seminar series, in this talk Prof. Colombo discussed the different fabrication methods that have been developed for the production of ceramic components using AM, for use in a variety of engineering applications. The webinar discussed a variety of techniques that can be applied to ceramic AM, as […]
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Published: March 1st, 2024
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TFIN+ is now partnering with ECR Net Zero conference 2024 which is being held in Birmingham on 27 & 28th February. The aim of the conference is to foster a collaborative, multidisciplinary community by giving important research organisations and early career researchers (ECRs) a chance to network with colleagues from various research communities within the larger […]
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Published: January 29th, 2024
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Additive manufacturing (AM) is a technology which has the potential not only to change the way of conventional industrial manufacturing processes, adding material instead of subtracting, but also to create entirely new production and business strategies. Currently, it is possible to manufacture ceramic components with a very wide range of compositions in a size ranging […]
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Published: January 24th, 2024
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